The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-02-19
Vicinity Items.


The Board Of Supervisors, Of Sangamon
Co offer to deed the fair grounds at Spring
field, and put $4,000 on them in repairs TO
the State Board Of Agriculture, to get the
state fair permanently.
A 81, 600 school house is to take the place
of the one recently destroyed by FIRE, at
Granville.
Nine canal boats frozen in the river below
the Peru bridge. were carried out into the
stream by the recent food. !, took dexter
Gus management to get them ashore through
the vast field Of broken ice
The University Farm at Champaign, has a
COW which cost $3.50, born 10 years ago
about half of whose progeny has been sofa
for 81, POE, and the other half Of them remain
on the farm and are worth an equal sum-
When the Fox river went on its annual
spring jamboree lately, it flooded the Au'
rora Beacon printing room floor to the depth
of couple of feet, so that the Beaconites got
their paper out under difficulties.
The railroad pool, so previously discr'm'
mated against Decatur, that four firms rep
resenting 100000 Of capital, have been
driven out Of that city to seek employment
elsewhere.
Owing to damage to the Wabash railroad
bridge, the mail from Streator to Cornell,
goes 10 Pontiac, via the Alton railway and
thence in a wagon to its destination.
Anr Apologize has been appointed post
mistress at Blackstone.
Hon. Z. S. Browne, of Mendoza, says the
Reporter Of that city, will locate at Strea'or
next spring
They talk of raising the saloon license at
Pontiac, to 81 900, this spring.
The cost Of maintaining paupers in Liv-
ings,on Co., is a fraction over 30 cents day
There was a fine crop Of clover in the
vicinity of Pontiac this year, and it brings
$3.50 bushel.
Harry Evans and Harry Peterson, the
former aged 80 and the later aged 90, we're
drowned in the Illinois river, at Loceyv lie,
last Saturday, while trying to cross in
skif, among floating Ice.
The property of the Livingstone Co. poor
farm has increased 5000 in value since last
year.
Some of the Braidwood miners who struck
lately, would now be glad to get back at the
wages they opposed.
Peter Cosgrove.of Utica, the well known
saloon keeper, has sold his establishment
and will 60 to farming on his place south of
the river.
A member Of the Salvation Army, at Au
rora, was discovered in state of undue hill
arity and "run in" one mild evening last
week.
A dead rattlesnake, three feet long, wear
ing nine rattles, was found on cake of ice
which had lodged on shore in Aurora lately.
There are nineteen bridges across the Up
per Mississippi river and three or four more
strongly agtated
The c., b. & Q, K. r. Co., mediate q
branch of their road from Streator to Clin-
ton, crossing the Illinois river at Loceyville,
few miles west Of Peru.
Saloon keepers at Spring Valley are to be
charged 81 600 license.
Scarlet fever prevails extensively at La
Sale and Peru.
A lynx is roaming around in the timber
south Of Seneca, and it seems the sportsmen
of that region have not the nerve to tackle
the ferocious beast and capture it.
Messrs Fornof, Blandid and L. F. Meek,
representing the Streator newspapers, have
gone on an excursion to New Orleans to see
the Mardi Gras festivities.
A new telegraph line is to be constructed
along the Fox river branch Of the 90" The
line now in use has been up for over IA
years